Letter from the Editor

Editorial: The Wake of Google's Wave

A big company doesn’t just grow like a kid – it evolves, kind of like a star. And big monopoly companies have their own phases of evolution. The culture of the modern corporate world favors growth, and a company with monopoly-like power can grow quite explosively in a very short time. Who’s going to stop them while they swallow up whole markets and industries?

Z-Wave connects components in the smart home and ensures that remote commands from the control station take effect on real household appliances. We look at how it works, its range, the security of the protocol, and some basics that every Z-Waver should know.

The Californian Software company Appjet has been added to Google’s Wave team. Appjet’s collaborative Web editor Etherpad was initially supposed to be scrapped, but is now planned for Open Source release.